[PATCH 1 of 1] doc: add "icasefs" additional help topic for case insensitive filesystem

[Martin Geisler]

FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp> writes:

>       on some platform where symlink capability is not available
>       (e.g.: NTFS on Windows, VFAT on Linux), Mercurial writes symlink
>       out as the plain text file which contains destination of
>       symlink.

This is only partly true: It turns out that Windows Vista and later
supports symlinks on NTFS. However, we have no support for creating
them. See this answer and the comments below it:

  http://stackoverflow.com/a/8712267/110204

-- 
Martin Geisler

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